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OKAY that does it. ENOUGH with the acronyms and codewords in the tech already!! Not everything has to have a cute fuzzy name that makes it impossible to know where it fits in the context of software development hierarchy.

It USED to be perfectly reasonable to understand whether or not your device met the minimum requirements when things wee sensibly ordered and named accordingly. If something said your system needed to be at least as advanced as OS 6.2 and your machine said OS 7, you were good to go. NOW, how the hell am I supposed to pick up a software box that says it will only run on systems running LION or above and I am not even sure if my own machine is TIGER or SNOW LEOPARD or whether it came before or after FUCKYOUVERYMUCHKITTY??

WHO decided this would be a good idea and WHY?

And now Android is just as bad. It was always an irritation for me not knowing if I was dealing with Ice Cream or Candy when trying to look up information about a device that I had interest in, but after reading this utterly nonsensical paragraph and the absurdity of it all hit critical mass for me:

“This change actually went live in Honeycomb 3.2, but it received fairly little attention. We can attribute that to a few factors. To begin with, Honeycomb’s source code only became public with the release of Ice Cream Sandwich, meaning this change was buried amidst thousands of others. Further, the Nexus One never received an official OTA to Ice Cream Sandwich, so access to the SD card was never visibly lost. In fact, the only device known to be affected by the change was the Motorola XOOM. But the XOOM launched with a disabled SD slot, and by the time it was enabled in 3.2, the issue was usually disregarded as a bug.”

Seriously? A professional person wrote that like it ought to make sense. How’s this for an acronym : **RUFKM?!?**

I swear, I share the same creative spirit that you marketing folks have, but GTFO of the technical specs already. Give your product a cutesy or edgy image and name that conjures the feelings that should go along with it, but please let us stick to the sensible and inherently structured ordinals that mean I don’t have to do goddamn research to understand which things are what in order to compare them. I already KNOW that C follows B and that 3 precedes 4. But I am not going to make comparisons of software based on sugar content.

There is an entire article that is practically useless to me despite the fact that it probably contains the answers to the questions I have that sent me looking for it in the first place, but the only reason I might know it does is because Google spit it out as a likely match for the query. I am pretty well educated, and even have a bit of a .knack for the technical stuff and hyper-developed reading skills and I can’t find anything in that paragraph that makes a lick of sense.

It’s time to let the nerds do their nerdy thing, and the cool marketing slicky sales people need to get the fuck out of the way because they are actually not helping things at all. I am now even more inclined to stick with my feature fucking flip phone just because of how stupid that paragraph was…

Please stop. If you must get fancy,.then at least pick some symbols which are intuitively obvious in their hierarchy so I don’t have to feel like I lost IQ points trying to understand which generation or iteration of a product you are talking about.